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Upcoming talks for Dahlstrom and Kirby

This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July.

James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech in Portland on May 23. Six days later, James will be presenting “Tonal similarity and tone perception in Vietnamese” at the 19th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society in Saigon.

Jerry Sadock to be interviewed

The department’s own Jerry Sadock will be the first interviewee in a series of  videotaped “Lives in Linguistics,” to be taped on April 21 in the Karen Landahl Center at 3:15. Friends are welcome to attend!

We’ll be having two other guests in May: Catherine Chvany, on May 5, and Lila Gleitman on May 11, both part of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. More on that to come.

James D. McCawley, 1938 – 1999

Ten years ago today our dear colleague Jim McCawley died, very unexpectedly, of a heart attack.  For those who have more recently joined the Department of Linguistics at Chicago, you might be interested in the memorial page for Jim.

Those who were fortunate enough to know him still miss him very much. We remember Jim today.

Fun, fun, fun: QP Fest next week

Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows:

March 16 (Location: Harper 140)

1-1:30

Christina Weaver: Negation in Luganda

1:30-2

Nassira Nicola: Information Status and Sentence Structure in Home Sign

2-2:30

Arum Kang: The Role of Prosody in Semantic/Syntactic Disambiguation in Korean

Break

 

3-3:30

Pat Rich: French expletive negation

3:30-4

Luisandro Mendes De Souza: Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese and the Verbal Domain

4-4:30

Pete Klecha: The Modality of English Futures


March 17 (Location: Harper 130)

9-9:30

Andy Dombrowski: Albanian-Slavic Phonological Contact

9:30-10

Juan Bueno Holle: Reference-tracking in Isthmus Zapotec

10-10:30

Alice Lemieux: Washo Bipartite Stems

Break

 

11-11:30

Max Bane: Grammatical Correlates of Variation in the English Dative Alternation

11:30-12

Yaron McNabb: Apparent pharyngealization in French loanwords in Moroccan Arabic

12-12:30

Susan Rizzo: Grandfather Effects and Derived Environment Effects in Harmonic Grammar

 

CLS 45: Get it while it’s hot

We’re proud to announce our program for the upcoming CLS 45 Conference, April 16-18, 2009, is now available. The program can be found on our website .

On the site you can also find pre-registration information; you can now pre-register online (payment must be mailed or hand-delivered by March 31). Registration is free to currently enrolled U of C students if they volunteer at the conference.

We’re looking forward to a great conference, and hope you are too!

-CLS 45